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Literary invasion: what does it mean for writers if AI written stuff is deemed the best by the most discerning?

New Delhi, May 26 -- Last week, the internet was abuzz with allegations that this year's winner of the Commonwealth Foundation prize for Caribbean regional short fiction had been written using artific... Read More


Don't pick the wrong privacy battle: Aadhaar held in a Google Wallet shouldn't make anyone nervous

New Delhi, May 19 -- Last month, when Google announced that Indian residents can now store their Aadhaar verifiable credentials in their Google Wallet, the reaction was shrill. Since then, much ink ha... Read More


It's time to tokenize sovereign debt now that India's e-rupee is ready to help finance evolve

New Delhi, May 12 -- At the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai last year, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced the launch of a "next-generation financial market infrastructure," design... Read More


AI could make use of India's health stack data to expand the country's health insurance coverage

New Delhi, April 28 -- Nearly 70% of Indians lack meaningful health insurance. Our penetration rate- just 0.35% of GDP-is lower than that of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The conventional explanation i... Read More


Leaps in quantum computing leaps may put DPI like Aadhaar and DigiLocker at risk if we don't act quickly

New Delhi, April 21 -- Traditional computers store information in bits. Quantum computers operate very differently. They use qubits, a whole new information architecture that leverages a quantum prope... Read More


How Anthropic's Mythos AI has exposed India to a cybersecurity worry with sovereignty implications

New Delhi, April 14 -- Last week, Anthropic announced that its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, Claude Mythos, was too dangerous to release. In testing, the company discovered that the model... Read More


Don't take free speech curbs too far: Rethink the proposed amendments to India's internet rules

New Delhi, April 7 -- On 30 March, the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) published draft amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines) Rules, 2021, which,... Read More


The Hormuz technology choke: Even the world's most dynamic industry can't escape this war's fallout

New Delhi, March 31 -- Even though the Strait of Hormuz is just about 33km wide at its narrowest point, about 20 million barrels of crude oil and refinery products would pass through it every day befo... Read More


Notaries go back to ancient Rome and lasted for centuries but let's accept they have no role left

New Delhi, March 24 -- In Ancient Rome, parties who wanted to record the terms of an agreement had to present themselves before a tabellio-a particular type of clerk whose job was to write down the te... Read More


Aim for a dual revolution: India needs a dramatic leap in farming that AI-powered automation can deliver

New Delhi, March 17 -- Toyota's factory in Woodstock, Ontario, will soon deploy Digit, a humanoid robot from Agility Robotics, on its production floor. These bipedal machines will unload auto parts fr... Read More